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The Atlas of Reality

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by Robert C. Koons,Timothy Pickavance


  Millian propositions see Russellian propositions

  mimicked disposition

  mind

  Minkowski spacetime

  miracle

  Mixed Two-Category Theory

  mock physicalism

  Modal Anti-Indexicalism

  modal claim

  modal epistemology

  modal fact

  Modal Indexicalism

  modal logic

  modal method of testing for ontological difference

  modal notion

  modal vocabulary

  modality Aristotelian account of

  de dicto

  de re

  distinction between de dicto and de re

  iterated

  mode, finite

  Moderate (Trope) Resemblance Nominalism; see also Nominalism, Reductive Nominalism, Resemblance Nominalism

  Moderate Compositional Anti-Realism

  Modern Relationism

  mode of being

  modification

  Modifying Trope Bundle Theory

  Modifying Trope Relational Ontology

  Modifying Trope Substrate Theory

  Modifying Trope Theory

  modular substance

  Modular Substance Theory

  Modular Trope Bundle Theory

  Modular Trope Relational Ontology

  Modular Trope Substrate Theory

  Modular Trope Theory

  molecule

  Molière

  Molnar, George

  moment of time future

  past

  see also instant

  see also present

  Monadism

  Monism

  mood see also grammatical mood indicative

  subjunctive

  Moore, G.E.

  moral fact

  moral fatalism

  moral goodness

  mosaic of qualities

  Motion Intervalism

  motion absolute

  continuous

  discontinuous

  law of

  moving spotlight

  multi-location

  multigrade relation

  Multiple Meaning Theory of Vagueness

  mutationism

  Nagel, Ernst

  naked infinitive

  name

  narrow scope

  natural class

  natural fact

  natural formation

  natural intentionality

  natural language; see also language, natural

  Natural Parthood

  natural theology

  naturalness

  nature fundamental

  metaphysical

  of tropes

  of truth

  Near-Nihilism

  necessary a posteriori

  necessary being

  necessary connection

  necessary truth

  Necessitarianism

  necessitation relation

  Necessity Entails A Priori Knowability

  necessity brute

  of origins

  negation, narrow-scope

  negative causation

  negative epistemic conceivability

  negative existential

  negative fact

  negative predication

  negative property

  negative proposition

  negative relation

  negative truth

  negative truthmaker

  negative vs. positive conceivability

  Neo-Humeism

  neutral monism

  new riddle of induction see grue paradox

  Newcomb problem

  Newton, Isaac

  Newton's rotating bucket

  nexus higher-order

  Nietzsche, Friedrich

  Nietzschean eternal recurrence

  Nihilism

  No Classical Truthmakers

  No Possible Worlds

  No Truthmakers

  no-miracle argument

  Nomic Fundamentalism

  nomic necessitation

  Nominalism; see also Extreme Nominalism, Ostrich Nominalism; Reductive Nominalism; Resemblance Nominalism

  Nomism

  Nomological–Deductive Theory of Explanation

  non-actual individual

  non-actual world

  Non-Classical Truthmaker Theory

  non-existence

  non-existent thing

  non-fundamental entity

  non-mereological composition

  non-moral fact

  non-standard analysis

  non-symmmetrical relation

  norm constitutive

  essential

  of thought

  normal condition

  nothing over and above

  notional change

  now

  Nuclear Bundle Theory

  nucleus

  number complex

  real

  numerical distinctness

  O-fundamental; see also G-fundamental

  Oaklander, Nathan

  object of mental attitude

  of perception

  of thought

  objectivity

  obtain

  Occurentism

  Ockham's Razor defense of

  Fifth Corollary (PMeth 1.5)

  First Corollary (PMeth 1.1)

  Fourth Corollary (PMeth 1.4)

  Second Corollary (PMeth 1.2)

  Sixth Corollary (PMeth 1.6)

  Third Corollary (PMeth 1.3)

  Zeroth Corollary

  omega-moment

  omission

  One Truthmaker per Fundamental Property (PTruth 1)

  ontic vagueness

  ontological commitment

  ontological dependence

  ontological difference

  ontological economy

  ontological free lunch

  ontological priority

  ontologically distinct theories

  ontology

  open future

  order of explanation

  order, causal

  order, problem of

  ordered pair

  ordinary language; see also natural language

  ordinary object/particular

  Organicism

  organism

  origins essentialism

  Ostrich Nominalism; see also Extreme Nominalism, Nominalism, Reductive Nominalism

  Ostrich Separatism

  overdetermination

  overlap

  Overlapping Concrete Worlds

  package, metaphysical

  pairing problem

  panpsychism

  Panqualityism

  paradigm case argument

  paradox, mathematical

  paradox of causation

  paradox of death

  paradox of induction,

  paradox of intrinsic change

  paradox of the arrow

  Paradox of the Liar/Liar Paradox

  paradoxes of intransitive persistence

  parallel universe

  paraphrase

  Parfit, Derek

  parity, metaphysical

  Parmenides of Elea

  parsimony, qualitative

  Parsons, Josh

  Parsons, Terence

  part actual

  atomic

  independent

  potential

  proper

  rigid

  part–of/parthood relation

  part-whole relation

  participation

  particular bare

  definition of

  fundamental

  partition

  parts and wholes

  passage of time rate of

  see also flow of time

  past

  past-tense operator

  past-tensed fact

  past-tensed predication

  past-tensed property of present thing

  past-tensed sentence

  past-tensed
truth

  Patchwork Principle infinite

  see also Finite Spatiotemporal Patchwork

  see also Infinite Spatiotemporal Patchwork

  pattern

  Paul, L.A.

  Pauli exclusion principle

  Pautz, Adam

  Pearl, Judea

  perception act/object structure of

  causal mediation of

  direct

  indirect

  reliability of

  theories of

  veridical

  Perceptual Dualism

  Perceptual Realism

  Perdurantism Ramsey-Lewis-Sider

  Perry, John

  persistence

  personal identity

  phenomenal appearance

  phenomenal color

  Phenomenal Exportation Principle

  Phenomenal Principle

  phenomenal reduction

  Phenomenalism

  phenomenlogy

  physical color

  physical property

  physicalism

  physics; see also laws of physics fundamental

  solid-state

  Pickavance, Timothy H.

  Pickel, Bryan

  Pictorial Abstractionism problem of representational detail

  see also Abstractionism, Structural Abstractionism

  pictorial representation

  place definition of

  existence of

  unoccupied

  Planck length

  Plantinga, Alvin

  Plato

  Platonic Schema

  Platonism, heavy-duty

  plenum

  plural description

  Plural Expansion

  plural logic

  Pluralism

  pluralist construction

  plurality, completed

  Pluralized Universal Causation

  point

  point-mass

  point-part

  point-sized body

  Pointillism

  pointlike, collectively

  positionalism

  positive predication

  positive truth

  positive-modal conceivability

  possibile/possibilia

  Possibilism

  Possibilistic Presentism

  possibility alien

  epistemic

  maximal

  mere

  metaphysical

  nomological

  non-actual

  tenseless

  Possibility of Extended Bodies

  Possible Actuality

  possible existence

  possible truth

  possible way

  Possible Worlds (14.1T)

  possible world abstract

  closeness of

  concrete

  ersatz

  exist in/according to

  nature of

  potential

  precise

  spatial; see also point, curve, surface

  temporal

  vague

  potential part

  potentiality for change

  power accidentality of

  account of

  active

  conferring of

  emergent

  essentiality of

  essentially unitary

  fundamental

  hidden

  immanent

  intrinsicality of

  network of

  occult

  passive

  pure

  Power Fundamentalism

  Powerism

  practice, linguistic

  pragmatism

  precisification

  predicate (linguistic) logically complex

  relational

  Predicate Nominalism; see also Reductive Nominalism

  predication atomic

  negative

  past-tensed

  positive

  preemption

  preference, scientific

  present (moment) specious

  present tense

  present thing

  present-tense fact

  Presentism (Existential Tensism)

  presentness

  presumption

  Presumption of Philosophical Discourse (PEpist 2.2.1)

  prevention

  Priest, Graham

  prime matter

  primitive identity

  primitive past-tensed facts/states of affairs

  primitive property of actuality

  primitive property of possibility

  primitive relation of distinctness

  primitive representation

  primitively tensed property

  Principle of Actual Parts

  Principle of Constituent Identity (PCI)

  Principle of Indifference

  principle of individuation

  Principle of Sufficient Reason

  prior probability

  Prior, Arthur

  Priorean proposition

  Priority Atomism

  Priority Monism

  Priority of Spatial Point-Parts

  Priority of the Actual

  priority, compositional

  privation

  privative causality

  probabilistic symmetry

  Probability-Raising Theory of Explanation

  probability, prior

  Problem of Individuation

  problem of induction

  Problem of the Many

  problem of the one over many see problem of universals

  problem of universals

  Procedural Intervalism

  process Aristotelian

  causal

  part of

  undivided

  profile, property-relative

  profile, systemic

  projectible predicate

  projection

  propensity; see also tendency, disposition

  proper class

  proper part Aristotelian definition of

  property abundant theory of

  accidental

  alien

  basic

  broadly physical

  categorical

  causal theory of

  causally powerful

  collective

  complex

  core physical

  determinable see determinable

  determinate see determinate

  dispositional

  distributional

  emergent

  epistemological

  essential

  fundamental

  individuation of

  intentional

  intrinsic

  logically complex

  macroscopic

  mental

  metaphysical

  modal

  monadic

  natural

  negative

  non-fundamental

  non-natural

  nuclear

  of actuality

  of being abstract

  of distinctness

  of identity

  of presentness

  of self-identity

  of truth

  past-tensed see past-tensed property

  physical

  positive

  relational

  second-order

  sensible

  simple

  sparse

  sparse theory of

  spatial-cum-quantitative

  tensed

  theory of

  uninstantiated

  vague

  property instance; see also instance

  proposition centered

  contingent

  co-tenable

  logically complex

  maximal possible

  possible

  tensed

  tenseless

  untensed

  propositional function

  propositional grammar

  Pruss, Alexander

  pseudo-process

/>   Pure Physicality of Physical Things (PPPT)

  Putnam, Hilary

  qualitative change

  qualitative characteristic/feature

  qualitative difference

  qualitative economy; see also quantitative economy, Ockham's Razor

  qualitative fact

  qualitative primitive

  qualitative sameness

  qualitatively indistinguishable

  quality secondary

  Gestalt

  homogeneous

  pure

  quality space

  quantification domain of

  generic

  plural

  vacuous; see also generalization, vacuously true

  quantificational deficiency

  quantifier existential

  universal

  scope of

  quantitative economy; see also Ockham's Razor vs. qualitative economy

  Quantitative Modular Substrate Theory

  quantity conserved

  quantum chemistry

  quantum mechanics

  quasi-truth

  quatificational phrases

  quiddity; see also sicceity

  Quietist package

  Quine, W.V.O.

  Quineans

  Ramsey-Lewis-Sider (R-L-S) Perdurantism

  Ramsey-Lewis-Sider worms

  Ramsey, Frank

  Ramsey/Lewis theory of laws

  Ramsification

  Rational Practices Presumption

  rationality

  Rea, Michael

  real change

  real number infinite

  real process

  Realism

  realism, scientific; see also scientific realism

  reality-boundedness

  really operator

  reasonable belief

  Reasonable Reliability

  recombination

  reducibility of modal facts

  reduction ontological

  phenomenal

  theoretical

  reductionism

  reductive account of actuality

  reductive account of conditionals, laws, powers

  reductive account of modality

  reductive account of representation

  reductive account of tensed truths

  Reductive Compositional Anti–Realism

  Reductive Nominalism problems for

 

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